. A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conifers; hardy ferns; hardy bamboos and other ornamental grasses. Also the best kinds of fruits and vegetables that may be grown in the open air in the British Isles with full and practical instruction as to culture and propagation. Gardening; Gardening; Botany, Economic. I'IG. 11.—ARIL. PIG. 12.—ARISTATE. Aristate, awned or bearded, like Barley (fig. 12). Articula
. A practical guide to garden plants, containing descriptions of the hardiest and most beautiful annuals and biennials, hardy herbaceous and bulbous perennials, hardy water and bog plants, flowering and ornamental trees and shrubs, conifers; hardy ferns; hardy bamboos and other ornamental grasses. Also the best kinds of fruits and vegetables that may be grown in the open air in the British Isles with full and practical instruction as to culture and propagation. Gardening; Gardening; Botany, Economic. I'IG. 11.—ARIL. PIG. 12.—ARISTATE. Aristate, awned or bearded, like Barley (fig. 12). Articulatus, jointed. Arvensis, growing in cultivated grounds. Ascending, curving upwards into a vertical, from a more or less horizontal or prostrate position. Asper, asperous, rough; furnished with harsh hairs. Assimilation, the process of manufacturing food by the leaves (see p. 34). Ater, deep black ; used in combinations such as atropurpureus, atrococcineus, atrosan- guineus dc. FIQ. 13.— AUBICnLATB. Atratus, becoming black. Attenuate, narrowing gradually to a point. Aurantiacus, orange-coloured. Auratus, golden-yellow. Aureus, golden. Auriculate, Auricled, having awncUs, or ear- like appendages at the base of the leaves (fig. 13). Awn, a long-pointed bristle- like appendage, as the beard of many kinds of grasses, like Barley, Oats &a. AkU, the upper angle formed by the union of the stem and leaf. Axile, proceeding from the centre or axis. This term is used in connection with the way seeds are arranged on the placentas in the ovary shown at a in fig. 86. Axillary, produced in the axils of the leaves or other organs. Axis, the main ascending stem and descend- ing root of a plant. Azureus, sky-blue. Baccate, having a more or less succulent or pulpy seed-vessel or berry as in the Fuchsia, Aucuba, (fee. Barbatus, bearded, having tufts of soft hair. Bearded, having long hair like a beard, as the ' crests ' of many Irises ( ). Berry, a pulpy fruit containing several seeds
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